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Speculation that the pound is set to reach parity with the Euro is rife after construction PMI data highlights Brexit’s negative impact on the economy. Following a week of heightened tensions over the North Korean missile aggression and stalled Brexit negotiations sterling took yet another battering at the start of the month as Construction PMI data reveals weak economic growth and a new BBC survey finds an interest rate rise from the BoE is unlikely until 2019. Commenting on the results Paresh Davdra, CEO...

As McDonald’s employees gather on the picket line for the first time ever in the UK, the Labour leader has come out in support of the disgruntled workers. The burger chain employees want secure shift patterns and pay of at least £10 an hour. A rally is expected to go ahead in central London with 40 striking workers will attend a rally in Westminster, with Jeremy Corbyn lending his support. The industrial action comes from two outlets, one in Crayford...

Theresa May could be about to make a U-turn on public sector pay caps, according to leaked documents. The PM stoically rejected calls to lift the 1 per cent pay cap after the controversial policy saw the average public sector worker lose £13,000 over the last seven years. But according to reports a letter has been issued by ministers to pay review bodies signalling the lifting of the pay cap on those professions with the biggest recruitment and retention problems -...

A Tory MEP has got himself an Irish passport as he wanted to ensure he was a EU citizen after the UK finally leaves the economic union after the Brexit deal is finally agreed. Charles Tannock is a passionate remainer who was deeply saddened by the EU referendum result. He has an Irish grandmother so was able to apply for a passport for the Republic. Tannock told the Irish Times about his newly found passion for his Irish family background...

There has been some shocking news that has just emerged that could mean that the NHS might not be able to provide beds to patients this winter, with many asking if this could be the last year the NHS can function as a provider of universal health care. Even though the target to seen A&E patients within four house has failed to be met over the last two years, it is likely to be much worse this coming winter. Now...

Anyone who has ever been to university knows the first year is essentially a write-off from an academic point of view. You join clubs, you drink, you watch more Friends episodes than you read books and take an overtly laissez faire attitude to your degree in the knowledge that nothing you do in the first year really counts anyway. Which is why, in response to mounting debt and impossible dreams of ever getting a foot on the property ladder, two year...

This week’s Cycling Weekly caused controversy when an editorial error saw a text holder (A caption to accompany an image which is updated before the publication goes to press) read 'Token Attractive Woman'. Twitter user Carlos Fandango who noticed the mistake published the image on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chapeau_Velo/status/903333298361032704 Upon the issue being flagged to them, Cycling Weekly issued an apology on their official Twitter account. The apology read: "Unfortunately during the magazine's production process a member of the sub-editing team decided...

This chilling interview in which LBC’s James O’Brien speaks to journalist Mike Hind who has been investigating thousands of accounts flooding Twitter with right-wing, anti-immigrant, pro-Brexit and pro-Trump propaganda is truly eye-opening.   There are 63,000 accounts with names followed by eight digits like @DavidJo52951945 - outed this week in the Times for having Russian links. The tweets of the self-styled “passionate Brexit supporter" with a Union Flag profile picture, over 100,000 followers on Twitter tend to support Brexit, Ukip, anti-Islam...

Nine staff have been suspended from a G4S immigration centre after claims of abuse and assaults against detainees. An investigation into allegations made by BBC's Panorama programme of "chaos, incompetence and abuse" at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick, has also been launched. The undercover filming operation has raised serious issues about the treatment of detainees in the UK. Recent outbreaks of disorder in some of Britain's jails paints a worrying picture of the standard of incarceration centres across the nation. Jerry Petherick,...